Life History and Skeletal Biology
Primates and other organisms show considerable diversity in life history strategies - or the ways in which they invest in growth, reproduction and survival to maximize reproductive success over the course of their lives. What ecological, social and biological factors shape variation in life history strategies? How do trajectories of growth and maturation in humans compare to those of our primate relatives? Finally, what retrospective information do bones and teeth reveal about primate life history strategies, as well as the biological, social and ecological contexts shaping variation in these strategies today and over evolutionary time frames?
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Shannon C. McFarlin
Lab Director, Associate Professor
Phone: 202-994-4245
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